The story behind the amanda knox trial

Prosecutors said Guede, Knox and her boyfriend had all worked together in the killing. The court also blamed flaws in the case on intense media scrutiny and possible contamination of evidence. Knox , now 29, is back in Seattle, where she advocates for people she believes have been wrongfully convicted and where she works as a freelance journalist. She appeared on Good Morning America on Thursday to promote the Netflix documentary and her work with helping others who have been exonerated.

I have great relationships. Contact us at letters time. Amanda Knox speaks to the media during a brief press conference in front of her parents' home in Seattle on March 27, By Melissa Chan. After the acquittal was overturned, the new trial began on September 30, Because the court in Perugia lacked the appropriate amount of space needed, the location of the second trial was in Florence, Italy, with Judge Alessandro Nencini overseeing the trial.

Knox made no arrangements to attend any portion of the trial, while Sollecito attended the trial as it came to an end with a verdict. A new piece of evidence, which was referred to as evidence I, was examined in the trial.

Evidence I was a minuscule piece of material that was found on a kitchen knife that Italian prosecutors believed was used to kill Kercher. It is absurd to use it for a murder and put it back in the drawer. In a decision that created shockwaves around the globe in early February , Knox and Sollecito were again found guilty of murdering Kercher, following nearly 12 hours of deliberation by an appeals court jury that concluded by upholding the lower court's decision against Knox and her former boyfriend.

The evidence and accusatory theory do not justify a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. There has always been a marked lack of evidence. Most troubling is that it was entirely preventable. I beseech those with the knowledge and authority to address and remediate the problems that worked to pervert the course of justice and waste the valuable resources of the system. This ruling was the final decision in the case against the two and more details on the court's verdict was released in June.

After learning about the verdict, Knox issued a statement, saying "I am tremendously relieved and grateful" for the court's decision. After returning home, Knox finished her degree and began working as a freelance journalist. She wrote Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir , a bestselling book about her experience, which was released in Her story is the subject of Amanda Knox , a Netflix documentary which was released in September In addition to her writing career, Knox appears at events for the Innocence Project , which advocates for people who have been wrongfully imprisoned.

She became engaged to childhood friend and musician Colin Sutherland in but the couple later split. In late she became engaged to author Christopher Robinson.

In August Knox announced she was making plans to return to Perugia in as part of a follow-up book to her bestselling memoir. Knox celebrated her marriage to longtime boyfriend Christopher Robinson in a Renaissance and Star Wars -themed wedding on February 29, The pair originally obtained a marriage license on December 1, We strive for accuracy and fairness.

If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Former American football star O. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend following a high-profile criminal trial, dubbed the "Trial of the Century. Berry escaped in Amanda Bynes is a TV and film actress who got her start as a child. Jodi Arias was convicted of brutally murdering her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander at his Arizona home in Having been the center of a sensational murder trial, Casey Anthony is best known for her connection to the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, Caylee.

Lizzie Borden is best known for her arrest and trial for the ax murders of her father and stepmother. She was acquitted in Convicted murderer Robert Stroud became an expert in ornithology while incarcerated, later earning fame as the 'Birdman of Alcatraz. American college student Amanda Knox was convicted and then acquitted in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.

But the Amanda Knox story tapped into something previously inchoate, a vein of irrationality, rage, misogyny, pettiness and paranoia that — as the world has since come to understand — has bubbled along in the human species, unshared and unspoken, until it was enabled and amplified by the World Wide Web. Local police, racing to solve the case as students fled the university town, made a mess of the crime scene and committed forensic blunders in the lab, among other mistakes.

The local magistrate, afflicted with indigenous superstitions, proclaimed the murder a Satanic rite, setting off a global media feeding frenzy — and something else that, in hindsight, was just the beginning. The Amanda Knox phenomenon marked the first time a bizarre cult of credulity emerged online, with tens of thousands of people energetically subscribing to the most heinous possible scenario, while refusing to accept more reasonable alternatives.

A now-familiar scenario played out: Vicious social media swarms led by trolls using online pseudonyms. Accusations of fake news hurled at reputable outlets, while demonstrably fake news was published regularly. There was doxxing.

Lawmen attacked as shills. Anyone who witnessed the phenomenon could not have been surprised by Pizzagate, which revealed millions of people willing to believe Hillary Clinton ran a Satanic child sex ring beneath a popular Washington, D. All the while, many of these same people refused to acknowledge the testimony of legal and ethics experts like former Manhattan U.

The case also featured allegations of mental instability in a leader who would insist upon his fantastically excellent health. The investigation, trial and appeals dragged on for more than seven years before the charges were finally thrown out in But by then, tens of thousands of commenters on both sides of the innocent-guilty divide had trolled each other about the main characters in the trial as if they knew them personally, and could see into their minds and read there the vilest or purest of motives.

PMF has gone dark, but another particularly virulent site remains online and still going after Knox. No pro-Knox activity was too small to escape his notice.